

Swedish Quran Burner Banned From the UK
Paludan had intended to burn a Quran in the northern English city of Wakefield in response to the expulsion of local schoolchildren for damaging the Islamic text.
Paludan had intended to burn a Quran in the northern English city of Wakefield in response to the expulsion of local schoolchildren for damaging the Islamic text.
The Conservative government hopes its plan will make a “big difference” in taking parents away from their children and back into the workforce.
The suspension has raised questions over the BBC’s impartiality and future justification for the UK’s licence fee, which generates £3.8 billion of income for the station annually.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman said “enough is enough,” but the Conservative Party’s seriousness on the issue has been brought into question.
Ministers were canny, says journalist Toby Young, but it is the media that is at fault for failing to hold the government to account.
The agreement between the EU and UK governments will entail reduced border checks on British goods entering Northern Ireland.
Michel Barnier, who led the Brussels’ Brexit negotiating team, said there are certain challenges Britain and the EU “can only face together.”
Despite appeals for all UK hospitals to remove rules which prevent patients from seeing their loved ones, the government appears unwilling to take firm action.
Conservative Party politicians are pushing for the Church of England to perform gay marriages despite long-held, law-bound promises regarding “religious protection.”
The UK’s Tory government is facing criticism from conservatives over an upcoming law that will ban trans conversion therapy.